BBC Podcasts & BBC Sounds

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BBC Sounds is a streaming media app that hosts thousands of podcasts, live radio and archived radio shows. Podcasts range from comedy to educational to sport.


BBC Podcasts started back in 2004 and since then have gone from strength to strength. Each month around 63 million podcasts are downloaded from the BBC, with 26 million of those being just by the UK!

Previously you had to use either a BBC Podcasts app or BBC iPlayer Radio app but now everything is in one app, BBC Sounds. This includes live radio, catch-up radio and every BBC podcast available.

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Flipboard

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Flipboard collates content from across the web based on your interests so you only see what you want to see.


Flipboard is a news collaboration app and website that allows you to keep up to date with your subject areas and only see news on the things you’re interested in.

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MyBib

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MyBib is a simple citation tool that allows you to store references for future.


MyBib is a one-stop shop for all your citation needs. It’s clean, simple and very intuitive to use. It stands for My Bibliography.

While Cite This For Me is one of the best-known citation tools, I found MyBib so much easier to use, it comes with some nice extra features and it’s not covered in ads.

The best bit? It’s 100% free!

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Cite This For Me

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Cite This For Me allows you to automatically create website citations at the click of a button.


Cite This For Me is a citation tool to help you generate references for research in your writing.

The basic functions of this tool are free to use and doesn’t take too long to get used to.

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Unpaywall

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Unpaywall lets you legally access a number of full scholarly articles that you might otherwise need to pay for.


Unpaywall is an open database of over 23 million research articles, instantly, for free!

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Oxford Dictionaries

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Oxford Dictionaries has over 350,000 words from the English language.


Oxford Dictionaries are generally considered the go-to resource for spelling, definitions and synonyms. Their website provides free access to the largest current English language dictionaries and thesaurus as well as a host of helpful tips on grammar, usage, spelling and more. It also includes audio pronunciations of words too.

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Evernote

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Evernote is a note-taking application that also allows you to create lists and jot down ideas.


Evernote, as its name suggests, is a note taking application, but that barely scratches the surface of what it can do. Not only does it synchronise across all of my devices – the desktop I’m writing this on, my Chromebook, mobile and tablet – but the notes can include images (imported or captured using the camera on my mobile) and documents in a variety of formats. Evernote indexes all of these notes for easy search, and it even indexes text inside images or PDFs.

You can read the Evernote website for a full list of all the features. I just wanted to go through and outline a few uses and how I use them to help organise my own time and work. Hopefully this will give you a few ideas to improve the way you organise your own wealth of information!

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